POKEY MUSIC - ATARI 800 XL =+ FAR AWAY - DEMO

[@fishersofpurgatory3717]

The POKEY chip will always have a special place in my old 8-bit heart, so this is awesome, thanks for posting!

[@deejayatari]

Pokey atari is more nerd than c64...i love it

[@tharkthax3960]

This computer never ceases to impress! Love it.

[@newbiatch]

pretty damn cool... especially running on 1979 technology

[@PrzeszczepiX]

Atari 800xl is from 1982

[@mrkitty777]

​@PrzeszczepiX the pokey chip too?

[@moditrix]

Amazing ;) real HW maximum demo. Great job :-O

[@mikwawrzyniak3968]

Brilliant. Awesome !

[@sbroumley]

Awesome demo! It pains me so much to hear the slightly flat / sharp pokey notes (especially the bass line) due to 8 bit frequency register control (unless you join 2 of the 4 voices together to get a 16 bit frequency controlled voice which not too many tunes do). To cover flat / sharp notes, you need to use vibrato that has average frequency of the intended note. A great example is Rob Hubbard’s A8 Jet Set Willy tune where they joined 2 voices for the perfectly in tune bass voice, other voices used lots of vibrato!

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

I enjoy the slightly flat/sharp pokey notes!

[@bryede]

Yep, and if you flip between two notes quickly enough it sounds like the middle pitch without vibrato.

[@tharkthax3960]

​@@nickolasgaspar9660gives it character!!

[@YQN2149]

Great tune!

[@anneschmitt8461]

To get it to run on my 800xl it would be a good idea to let the loading sound on here, so i could record it on a tape (or MP3 File) and load it in the real hardware - that would be nice! I collected about 300 Disks with Games, but there is of course no such demo with...

[@p1k4x]

Sick!

[@AFourEyedGeek]

Crazy good.

[@ITGuyinaction]

🤘😁🤘

[@anneschmitt8461]

And I wonder how they get that double scroll graphics, i do programm a xl myself, but that hardware routine to scroll sofltly does only work in one direction by using the 8 pixels (192 instead 200)...

[@skipbreakfast]

Can you upload your videos in higher resolution than 240p please? Many of your videos are blurry.

[@atari8bitsforever435]

????

[@viralbox9216]

@mauro esteban rodriguez zubieta just upscale it by like 4x, i think youtube uses bilinear filtering to smooth out the pixels

[@gamedoutgamer]

@@atari8bitsforever435 KZbin compression lowers the resolution and quality. 480p would clear up the video a lot, please.

[@DanafoxyVixen]

@mauro esteban rodriguez zubieta its not fine. KZbin sets a videos bitrate by its resolution. 240p has a very low bitrate compared to 480p. a low bitrate means it looks blurry than it actually is when objects move fast